[tips] Random Thought: Grade Downside and Downslide

2012-06-10 Thread Louis E. Schmier
Read today's New York Times front page? Do. The article is Risky Rise of the Good Grade Pill. It talks of study drugs. and good grades pill It's a depressing article about the growing use of stimulants and performance drugs, academic steroids, for getting outstanding high school transcripts

[tips] United Stats of America

2012-06-10 Thread Annette Taylor
No, it's not a typo; I've caught a show on the history channel a couple of times since my return on statistics in everyday life called the United Stats of America. Anyone else seen it? What do you think? Since I have only seen two episodes I thought the two were quite good and interesting but

Re:[tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Palij
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012 19:54:21 +, Paul C Bernhardt wrote: Do we know exactly when Bem did the studies that were published in JPSP? If he'd been doing studies for decades he could eventually have gathered enough type 1 errors to result in the publication we saw in JPSP. I have spent only a

RE: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem

2012-06-10 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
Gee, now that Chris Green has apparently appointed himself unilaterally as the arbiter of when a TIPS thread is no longer interesting, are we now required to seek formal permission from him for all future posts on the Bem matter - or any other matter that he decides has already been resolved

Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem

2012-06-10 Thread Christopher Green
I appointed myself nothing of the kind Scott. I stated an opinion (which is not exactly unknown on this list). Chris ... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo On 2012-06-10, at 10:06 AM, Lilienfeld,

re: [tips] Random Thought: Grade Downside and Downslide

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Palij
Louis, did you read the article in the NY Times magazine on teacher predators at the Horace Mann school? It's at: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/magazine/the-horace-mann-schools-secret-history-of-sexual-abuse.html?ref=magazinepagewanted=all Just a reminder about boundaries and the dangers of

Re: [tips] Random Thought: Grade Downside and Downslide

2012-06-10 Thread Louis E. Schmier
Yeah, but what does this have to do with with the front page Times article? Make it a good day -Louis- Louis Schmier http://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.orghttp://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.org/ Department of History

Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem

2012-06-10 Thread Paul Brandon
Interesting! Conan Doyle made that statement about Houdini. On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:46 PM, Christopher Green wrote: He does all of this so apparently effortlessly that some True Believers have claimed he is deluded about not having true psychical powers. :-) All in all, a very entertaining

[tips] The real thing?!

2012-06-10 Thread Gerald Peterson
Showing off his psychic prowess... http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1209017--luminato-mentalist-banachek-predicts-star-front-page-10-days-in-advance G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

RE:[tips] United Stats of America

2012-06-10 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
Thanks for the heads-up on this show. I'd not seen anything about it. I've now set the DVR to record a couple of upcoming eps. Paul ps: Annette, don't you know we need permission to talk about he who shall not be named? LOL! I did enjoy learning about Banacek and that folks had done some

Re:[tips] The real thing.

2012-06-10 Thread mjchael sylvester
Reminds me of the fact that Coca Cola once had bits of cocaine so I would tell my students that the Coca Cola they are currently drinking is not The real thing. michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

Re: [tips] Roger Boisjoly, Thiokol engineer of Challenger fame

2012-06-10 Thread Joan Warmbold
Beth, That is such a sad episode in our history and thanks for sharing the article with us. Just BTW, there's a youtube slice of the actual transcript of the discussion between the engineers from Thiokol and the managers of the Challenger mission performed by actors with Peter Boyle playing

Re: [tips] Stats software in grad school..

2012-06-10 Thread Michael Britt
Karl, I've recently been checking out JMP. Looks pretty user friendly. Do you have more experience with it? Thoughts? Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Jun 10, 2012, at 12:34 AM, Wuensch, Karl L wrote: